Preussiodora

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|display_parents = 3

|genus= Preussiodora

|parent_authority = Keay

|species = sulphurea

|authority = (K.Schum.) Keay

|synonyms =

• Randia sulphurea K.Schum
• Randia exserta K.Schum.

|synonyms_ref =

}}

Preussiodora is a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae.{{cite journal|author=Keay, Ronald William John|authorlink=Ronald William John Keay|date=1958|journal= Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles|volume=28|page=31|title=Randia and Gardenia in West Africa|issue=1|doi=10.2307/3667018 |jstor=3667018}} It contains only one species, Preussiodora sulphurea, native to central Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, and the islands in the Gulf of Guinea).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=176285 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

The genus name of Preussiodora is in honour of Paul Rudolf Preuss (1861–1926), a German botanist and researcher. He founded and directed a botanical garden in Kamerun (now called Cameroon).{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of sulphurea means sulphur-yellow.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles Vol.28 on pages 31–32 in 1958.{{cite web |title=Preussiodora Keay {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35185-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 November 2021 |language=en}}